Future development plans

Working out a breakthrough development plan Reported by Quang Tuan LARION Computing, a winner of the “Top Enterprises of the Year 2014” for enterprises operating in Quang Trung Software City, is formulating a breakthrough development plan in its second decade of operation, mainly focusing on human resources and management. It aims to become a sizable software outsourcing company in Vietnam and in the world. Lai Duc Nhuan, general director of the company, talks about how such breakthrough development would be materialized. Q: In the first decade of operation, LARION also worked on a breakthrough development plan. What were the results? A: At LARION, we always want to foster breakthrough development with specific steps to become a leading outsourcing company. Yet our plan in the first decade was not as good as expected. We even faced the risk of bankruptcy. However, proper implementing of some measures, the support of customers from the U.S. market and new investment … [Read more...] about Working out a breakthrough development plan

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a master plan for developing the country's urban areas by 2025.
It lays out the step-by-step creation of a network of urban areas with similar infrastructures and populations.
They will be built using advanced architectural techniques but retain their original features to be appropriate for the local people and economy.
The plan projects future urban growth and spells out a number of criteria for the overall development of local infrastructures and environmental protection while outlining plans and solutions for urban development until 2050.
Major cities like HCM City, Hanoi, Hai Phong, Vinh, Hue, Da Nang, Quy Nhon and Can Tho will become urban clusters or satellite areas to prevent overpopulation and economic and ecological imbalances.
Until 2015, economic hubs and major cities that play a key role in the country's development will be priorisied for urbanisation.
From 2016-2025, other substansial urban areas will be … [Read more...] about Gov’t unveils future development plans

The Vietnamese government said on its Web site that it has given the nod to a bio-fuel development plan through 2015 and a vision toward 2025, which is aimed to produce more renewable energy sources to feed the country's fast-growing economy.
By 2015, Vietnam will strive to produce 250,000 tons of ethanol and vegetable oil to fuel 1 per cent of the national gasoline demand, the government said.
The country will explore ways to turn out 1.8 million ton of the products through 2025 to feed 5 per cent of the national need, it added.
The government has worked out four mains tasks in the near future, including science and technology research and development, piloting production of bio-fuel products, building and development bio-fuel industry, and reinforcing competence on bio-fuel in combination with boosting international cooperation.
Bio-fuel is often made from bio-creature-sourced compounds such as animal fat, vegetable oil, corn, and agricultural and industrial waste like straw and … [Read more...] about Vietnam OKs Bio-fuel Development Plan through 2015

The ministry is drafting a new development planning for the cement industry until 2015 and with a vision for future developments through 2025 as the country is forecast to see a cement glut which will come earlier than the estimate of the latest approved planning until 2010 and a vision through 2020.
The cement industry satisfied the domestic demand for the first time last year after many years facing cement shortages, the government said, adding that Vietnam had 97 cement production lines with a combined designed capacity of 57.4 million tons in late 2009.
Cement producers in Vietnam are estimated to operate 13 more production lines with total designed capacity of 11.7 million in 2010, resulting in the country's cement surplus of two million tons.
The country's cement surplus will be much higher in the following years as more licensed production lines will be put in use.
In late 2009, the PM approved the MoC's proposal on suspending licensing new cement projects through 2020 in … [Read more...] about Vietnam PM Urges to Revise Cement Development Planning

The move is aimed to tackle the country's foreseeable huge cement surplus, which will come earlier than the forecast of the latest approved planning until 2010 and a vision through 2020.
The new planning will be the fourth of its kind for the industry within the past 12 years.
Under the draft, the MoC will regulate the process of putting major cement projects in use from now until 2015, and rezone areas where are home to too many cement projects.
The ministry forecast Vietnam will face a cement surplus of at least two million tons this year due to the boom of new cement plants nationwide while its cement export plans are facing difficulties.
Additional 16 cement plants are likely to be put into operation in 2010, raising the nation's total designed cement production capacity to 65.66 million tons, compared to its estimated demand of between 50 and 52 million tons, the ministry said.
The Ministries of Construction, and Industry and Trade have requested three cement firms to seek … [Read more...] about Vietnam New Cement Development Plan to be Submitted to PM in Q4

QuangNinh People's Committee has introduced seven strategic development plans to 2020 alongside the ground-breaking of the Halong-Haiphong highway that also links up with Hanoi. The strategic development plans were supported by global consultants including McKinsey, BCG, Nikken Sekkei and Nippon Koei. They include the master socio-economic development plan, a plan to develop provincial vicinity, a master plan on tourism development, a plan on environmental protection, a plan on land use, a plan on the advancement of science and technology, and a plan on human resources development. Nguyen Van Doc, chairman of the provincial People's Committee said the strategic orientations in previous development plans were no longer suitable to the fast changing context. He added that new difficulties and challenges were continuing to arise, limiting the province's development. "As such, the province has come up with breakthrough strategic development plans to facilitate provincial development, … [Read more...] about QuangNinh unveils seven strategic development plans

in Hanoi, the Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade), Ministry of Industry and Trade, organised a national workshop to introduce the regional export development plan. The event is to announce the results of the regional export development plan for the North, Central and South of Vietnam which was implemented from May to September, 2014. … [Read more...] about Accelerating Regional Export Development Plan

Many sectors have built long-term development plans, but after a period of implementing those plans, they must adjust them to be suitable with reality. Experts from the construction, coal and garment industries speak to a Vietnam News Agency reporter about adjustments in those industries' development plans. Lê Văn Tới, former head of the Ministry of Construction's Building Material Department: Việt Nam has abundant resources for cement production, with a limestone output of 12.5 billion tonnes. Now, the capacity of the domestic cement industry has increased by 20-25 per cent against local demand. Many opinions said that the domestic consumption of cement has grown but the cement industry should consider exports as a long-term plan to reduce oversupply of 20 million tonnes of cement per year. The development plan of Việt Nam's cement industry during 2011-20 and towards 2030, approved by the Government with Decision 1488/QĐ-TTg in 2011, has supported the efficient development of the … [Read more...] about Industry urges development plan renewal